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Otago Witness, Issue 1947, 18 June 1891, Page 25

OFFICIAL CALENDAR. nnHE OTAGO WITNESS has bean appointed by the Dunedin Jockey Club the OFFICIAL CALENDAR for the OTAGO METROPOLITAN DISTRICT for the insertion of the Programmes of Raoing Clubs throughout the District. Programmes for the succeeding issue of the Witness should be forwarded to reach the office not later than by Tuesday's Express.

TO COREESPONDENTS. [Correspondents must forward their proper names as a guarantee of good faith. Full performances of horses cannot be supplied through this column, but ihes* and extended pedigrees can be arranged/or by communicating with the Editor.] First Speaker, Tfmaru, aaka : A, B, O, D, E are playing poker, everyone putting up la as stakes. A deals; B goes blind Is ; O straddles with 2s ; how much does it cost Dto see it? Tbe obvious auiwer is tbat D oannot make sure of teeiDg it at all, since B follows him ; but 1 suspect that something not cleirly otecified irmeant, and therefore I quote an illustration of tbe very case in point, taken from " Modern Hoyle," whioh shows the procedure:— " A, B, O, D, E are players : A the dealer. B puts iv one chip at ante, or blind. O, before the cards are dealt, eleots to double the blind, viz., to -draw the ante, which he does by